To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETI must have flowers, always, and always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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